A Mediterranean house with green shutters, almost engulfed by cascading fuchsia bougainvillea — sun-bleached walls and dry earth, the warmth and fragility of home

Publishing

Home Sweet Home

2006

Home Sweet Home is a kind of alt-Condé Nast thing, where nosiness about how others organise their nests is given intellectual legitimacy.

This was the first book I published. Including an introduction from Richard Hamilton, an essay by Edgar Allen Poe and photography from Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Bless, Laetitia Benat and Leah Singer.

Home may be a house or an apartment or a cardboard box, but it is never just that. It is not merely bricks and mortar, but rather something far more abstract, something both physical and emotional. Home Sweet Home 102 investigates these and other notions of home through texts, found photographs, commissioned artwork, and music.

A surprise, too, upon entering Home Sweet Home 102: out of its pages fall housing confetti, small cutouts of house shapes from architecture and design magazines.

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